Fashion Year Book - Postcards communication students & Evaluation

Fashion - Postcards


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Communication template

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Fashion Design and Realisation Pathway: Examples

Fashion Design and Realisation Pathway Final

Evaluation Fashion Year Book

                                            

My practice has really been influenced by fashion design this Year and has been important to me to make sure I make the most of my time in third year doing projects that will benefit my portfolio and me as a designer. When the fashion year book was mentioned I felt this would be a good opportunity for me to further my knowledge in layout design and see the difference from designing for a look book as apposed to designing an actual year book.

As me and Issy worked so well together for YCN Scavi and Ray we decided we would do the fashion year book together. At first when designing the year book it was fine as they wanted a scrap book theme it worked out pretty well it was very open to interpretation and we were able to place images and move them around and really see what worked best whilst getting feedback from Janie the fashion teacher.

We seem to have a lot of problems along the way there was always missing images due to having them on one of the teachers memory sticks so we kept having to pass them back and forth and things were becoming to get a bit messy. After the yearbook was finished and sent off we began the look book cards and kept having problems with the InDesign file it would crash unexpectedly and leave us with a corrupt file. We managed to resolve the problem but this did seem to put a dampener on the brief for Issy and I especially so close to the dead line this really have an effect on us. Although we did sign up for the brief I do feel as though everything was unorganised due to the fashion students being busy and not having there work till such times did have a knock on effect for us as we had our own things to be getting on with as well.

Strengths from the brief would be it has helped me to work better under pressure not with my own work but the pressure of trying to keep things organised and waiting around for content from people. I enjoyed working with Issy again and i feel like we managed the situations well. We had obviously underestimated the size of the brief but it has been beneficial and will look good in our portfolio.

Fashion Year book - Design

Fashion Year book Design


When designing we worked with a variation of different layout designs although it was meant to be a scrap but style publication we wanted to be able to just drop stuff in where needed and we could adjust this at a later date.
We made a few layout designs as a template.

Full bleed images

 Full bleed one side and small image left align

  Full bleed both single pages

 One large full bleed image 3 small

  Two smaller central align images

 One large full bleed image 2 small

After any work we did Janie would come and check and we made lists and notes as we went to keep up to date.

Front cover design- (Designed by Paul Luke)

Info about the fashion course.

 Fashion Design & Realisation  - Example from year book

Due to the amount of work some students had it turned out some had more than others. 
Eg. - Eve Mcbennet has four double page spreads. The first double page spread has a mark shes made along side a sample of the garment material. Followed underneath by her details.

Using layout 5 -

The fashion design and realisation pathway had all there images photographed on the same backdrop. In a shoot and the other pathway took there own photography.

Using layout 3 - 

Using layout 1 - 

again using layout 5 - 

 Fashion Communication students - Example from year book

The students from this pathway is more about concept and where place there selves or garments in the market. So they take there own photography. The layouts are similar of the pathway just keeping a mixture throughout.

FINAL YEAR BOOK PDF

Fashion Year book Research

Fashion Year book

This is the fashion year book example we got given Issy and i flicked through it and took some more images and examples for inspiration.

- Full bleed images

- Typography

- Broken up layouts

- Smaller images centralised.

Existing examples:

Fashion year book - Layout design & Final Print decisions.

Fashion Year book - Layout Design & Final print 

Year book Design decisions:

The year book was initially meant to be printed in reprographics downstairs but due to the flexibility of us printing it and needing to do it double sided it wasn't possible as we need to print spreads on a2 apposed to a3. Danny spoke to a printers and we will be getting everything printed and bound at the same place in London.

EMAIL TO CONFIRM -

Hi Victoria/Isabel,

Further to what I was saying about the book binding, I've spoken to the company and:

The over all A3 option makes it easier.

The change in pagination to 108 pages makes it easier (originally we were quoted for 200+)

As such, they reckon it can be done in 7-8 days.

They would require pdf with bleed and crop marks.

The spec that they have now is 108 page book with a printed grey board cover (we probably need to define the gsm of this). The stitching style I specified is, I think, the same as the one book fashion had - coptic stitch. The simple straight line one. Like this: http://cailun.info/uploads/books/silvercoptic_20060220_d.jpg

As such, the book will most likely be grouped as nine sections of 12 pages. I don't think this means anything from your perspective in terms of laying out the book aside from considering your stock choices: where, essentially, there are nine sections made up of six folded sheets of paper and you'll need to work out how say, page 1 will be the same paper as page 12. So you might want to group the work accordingly to make that process easier.

Anyway, they're going to recalculate the quote but it's looking better than the original quote - even with any variations in stock.

They will also send through all the guidance that they have regarding print-ready files so you have that to hand.

Cheers,

Danny

    

Daniel Cookney 

Senior Lecturer

The look book cards we are getting printed will still be printed with Jason at evolution print.

After meeting with Janie on Monday and receiving some of the files Issy and i began mocking up a few layouts with what we had to show her.

Eve Mc Bennets work-

 Carmel Woolmingtons work-

 Nanas notes-

 James work-

Janie really liked the development we just awaiting more content and peoples work at a higher scale and resolution. We are also waiting on the photography shoots so we can then begin to add in them images also.

Brief 12 - Fashion Year Book - Meetings & Decisions

Fashion Year Book 

Issy and I had a meeting with the Fashion Department and came up with some points we wanted to mention so we could narrow down and define the deliverables for the brief.

- Name/Title

- Photographs of students

- Information/Personal

- Deadline

- Colour & Stock

- Size

-Theme

The fashion department already had a strong vision and they explained to us what was wanted for the yearbook.

- The yearbook will be a one off and won't be reproduced

- A3 scale

- Scrap book style year book

- Double page spread per student

- Different stock on each pages/ Coptic binding so the stock is seen through the side

- Websites and internship information with the student & no photographs

- They want each student to have some pieces of fabric or some tactile feeling stock with there double page spread.

- Grey board cover with window cut out.

- Additionally they will have a6 cards for each studio with a garment printed on. They will be reproduced.

- DEADLINE 29TH MAY

The Fashion department gave us an example of a large coffee table book they wanted us to use as an example and point of reference.

- How much writing will there be for each student? - Suggest for students to have more than one double page spread due to layout ideas. - Are they still doing interviews with students? How many? - Whats going in the window on the cover? Larger image or one that fits in the window?

Second meeting_

- deadline for both 29th May - but ideally get it done sooner - 27th April is when they are having a photo shoot so will have a lot of content after then - Sections of stock, rather than split up into parts - Some students will have more than 2 double spreads, some will only have 1 due to work loads - Meet every thursday lunch time - weekly

We asked for a list of all students, along with contact info, blurbs and experience.

For next week, layout ideas.

Issy and i took some images of the book they showed us so we could use it as a point of reference.

Cut out cover:

 Pages with full bleed images and smaller images:

 Smaller images on two pages:

 Variations of images: